The Progress., 1887-12-24
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In tho Senate on the 12th 594 bills and ioint
resolutions were introduced, among them be
anS the following: For pensions to all who
served during the war; to prohibit the manu-
tncture, importation or sale OF intoxica TING
liquors in the United States; to appropriate
Sl2a 377 $40 for sea.coast defe nses; to establish
. postal telegraph: for the admission OF Da.
kota and Washington TIE ,ritories as States:
Tor constitutional amendment in relation
70 bigany and polygamy; to reimburse the
several States for interest paid on
Va war taxes; to prohibit the letting
OF Government work to contractors
employing convict labor; for constitutional
amendment extending the right OF suffrage:
requiring ten years residence before fore! gn-
ers can declare their intention to become cit
tZens OF the United States, except that in the
case OF those arriving before they reach the
age OF twenty-one years a residence OF
six years only shall be required; appropriat-
Ing N,645,00o to erect public buildings;
TO reimburse prisoners of war and nurses
who were in the military or naval sery-
Ice during the war OF the rebellion; to
restrict the ownership OF real es-
tate in the Terr. tories to American oitizens; !;
70 provide for the inspection of meats for ex-
portation, and to prevent the importation OF
0dulterated articles. The comm ttees were
announced. In the House Speaker Carlisle
requested that the members select the Com
mlttee on Elections. A number OF propositions
20 amend the rules were submitted, to be re-
1erred when the committees were appointed
BILLS were introduced as follows in the
Senate on the 18th: To remove the limitation
III the payment OF arrears Of pensions and to
equallae the rates; to extend the Congression-
el term till the last Tuesday ia April: to
amend the Interstate commerce act; to open
kso,~ r.
Bef6lement; to tax manufacturers and dealers
IN adulterated lard, and requiring it to be
stamped; to regulate the holding OF Congress
slonal elections in South Carolina, Florida.
Mississippi and Lou siana. The Committee on
Privileges and Elections decided the West Viz
glnia contested election case in favor OF Mr..
Faulkner.... In the House a large number Of
executive communications were presented bv
she Speaker and appropriately referred. The
Committee on Elections was announced and
accepted. Adjourned to tho 10th. Er
AFTER the introduction Of several bills in the
senate on the 14th Mr.. morrill, spoke at length
on his bill relating to foreign immigration the
principal object of which, he expane was
70 nave the character Of the immigrants ex-
amineo oy the United States Consul at the port
OF departure. He stated that nearly one-third
of the population of the country was composed
OF foreigners, and expressed doubt as to the
possibility OF transforming them into good
American citizens. The House was not in
session IN TeE
IN the Senate. bills were introduced on the
10th to protect employees and servants engaged
IN Interstate commerce; to extend the general
land ana mining laws over the Territory of
alaska; to facilitate the settlement and dsyel-
opment OF the resources OF Alaska, and to open
an overland commercial route between the
United States, Asiatic Russia and Japan; to
1orfeit lands granted to the State of Michigan
Tor railroad from Marquette to Ontonaeon.
Mr. Stewart advocated his bill providing for the
Is sue OF coin certificates to circulate as money.
Adjourned to the 18th. 80. The House was not in
session. ,.a .---. d.. ~
The Senate was not in session on the 18th 49,.
m the House a concurrent resolution was
adopted providing for the adjournment of Con-
gross from December % to January q. A resolu-
tion OF regret over the death of E. W. Robert
son, late amember-eeot of the Fiftieth Congress
from Louisiana, was adopted, and as mark
of respect the House adjourned until the 19th
DOMESTIC.
D. De CASTRO & Co., Of New York, ship
ping and commission merchants, failed on
she 18th for about 81 900, OOO
THREE children of Henry Fawcett. living
near Point Pleasant, W. Va, were burned
TO death on the 18th in the house in which
they were locked while their father and
mOGEeI were ABSENT &
WHILE drunk on the 18th at Claremont
Vt, Joel Crowther, aged twenty two years
choked his mother to death. -5i.
SINCE the movement began to curtail the
production Of oil the stocks have been re-
duced by 1,30OOO0 barrels :.r.. ....n..
HE quarterly report of President Green,
OF the Western Union Telegraph Company,
shows that the net revenues of the COM
10 nr1 q I
will be about 81 SOC, 600, and that the sur
plus will be in the neighborhood of 81, ,634,-
600. = =
IElE barn OF John Becker, in Manor town
ship, Pa, was burned ON the 18th, with all
5he seasons crops and farm implementa
thirty-twO head Of cattle, twenty-five head
of hogs, five mules and a horse.
THE seasons urnber-out at Cheboygan.
Mich, was on the 18th estimated at about
l15, 600, 900 feet-the largest cut on
record HI.
ACCORDING to the annual report on the
14th of the New York Chamber Of Com
meree the value of goods exported from the
United States during the year was $725,-
733, 1858, while the value Of imports was
1852, ,490, $50, the excess in favor of i'm
ports being $26, ,677. .297.
TIE value of exports Of beef, hog and
udIy pIOuOCtS lOE november, 1881, was
$7,O76, $50; 1885, 81, $40, 766. For eleven
months ended November 80, 1887, $79,-
273, ,262; 1886, $77, ,ObO, ,O49 Dairy Prod
ucts November. 1887. $611, ,O93; 1886,
$6Os,675 For eleven months ended No
vember 80, 1887, $9, l35, Jas; 1886, ST.
A3S, ,331 Beef and Pork Produots-No
vember, 1887. sc, 1855 ,596; 1885. $6, ,962,-
: D91 a'
! TEAM containing Charles Whalen, his
wife and daughter, fell through the ice on
tse 14th on the Missouri river, twenty miles
below Bismarck, D. T., and all perished
AT the convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in Baltimore on the 14th a
very bitter feeling was manifested against
the United States Brewers Association
y which was denounced as the most powerful
antagonist that organized labor had to con-
tend with s6 .s
SToUKlMN from the north part Of the
Panhandle. Tex. called upon the State
and Federal authorities on the 14th for pro.
teotien against cattle thieves. They de-
clared that the public land strip was viz
tually in the possession Of these despera.
does, and that murders were Of daily occur
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